9:00-10:30 – History and Religion
• Robert Ingram - Anti-Catholicism and the Eighteenth-Century British State
• William Anthony Hay - Religion and the Politics of Late Hanoverian Reform: The Durham Clergy Case of 1822
• Daniel Donneson – Spinoza’s Defense of Democaracy: The Problem of Religion
• Phillip Munoz - Religious Liberty and the American Founding: The State Constitutions

10:30-11:00 – Break (Snacks)

11:00-12:30 – Early Modern Thought
• Svetozar Minkov - Bacon's Trust and Mistrust in Nature
• Benjamin Storey - Suspicion and Admiration in the Thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• Scott Yenor – Rousseau: The Romantic Family and its Limits
• Randall Hendrickson - Machiavelli and Montesquieu on the Political Relevance of the Passions

12:30–2:00 – Lunch Break. (A list of local establishments will be available for you at the conference. Conference presenters will have lunch provided for them.)

2:15 – Coffee, Refreshments

2:30-4:00 – American Executive
• Benjamin Kleinerman – Politics of the Constitution
• Jeremy Bailey - James Madison and the Problem of Constitutional Veneration
• J. David Alvis - Who’s the Boss?: Defining the Scope of the Executive’s Removal Power

4:30-6:00 – Plenary Session on Alexis de Tocqueville
• Patrick Deneen
• Wilfred McClay
• James Ceaser
• Christopher Kelly

To RSVP, or for more information, please contact Margaret Perry at tocquevilleforum@georgetown.edu